Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

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.