Sweet is pleasure after pain

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

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.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.