Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

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.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.