Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.