Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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!

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.