A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

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.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.