Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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.