The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

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.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free