Better ask ten times than go astray once.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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.