No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

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.