If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The comforter's head never aches.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.