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

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

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.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

A room without books is a body without soul

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.