He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Ability is poor men's wealth

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

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.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.