We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Those who trust us educate us.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him