Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Power comes from sincere service

Stability is not immobility

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.