Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

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.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.