Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Faith is continuation of reason.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.