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.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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