Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Liberation is not deliverance.

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

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.