One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.