Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Liberation is not deliverance.

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.