Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

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.

All thingsat first appear difficult.