Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him