Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.