Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

A language is like living skin itself.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.