No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

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.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The first duty of love is to listen.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.