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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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!

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.