It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

A language is like living skin itself.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

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