Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

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.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.