We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

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.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.