If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

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

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

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.