Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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 greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.