Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.