Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.