Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.