You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.