Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

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.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.