Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

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.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.