If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.