The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

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