By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.