None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.