Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

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.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

God made time, but man made haste.