We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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 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.

A language is like living skin itself.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Habit: the shackles of the free