Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

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.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.