If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

A room without books is a body without soul

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

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.