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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.