Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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