The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.