Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

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

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

The greatest prayer is patience.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

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.