The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

People say law but they mean wealth.

He understands badly who listens badly.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

The present is never a happy state to any being

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.