Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

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

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.