The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.