Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

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.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.