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

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.