The greatest prayer is patience.

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.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

What is well done is done soon enough.