Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Our errors are steps on the way.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

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.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.