Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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.