Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.