Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

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.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.