Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.