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

The greatest prayer is patience.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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.

They know enough who know how to learn.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.