You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

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.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.