Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

God has created the world in play.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

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 wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.