Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

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.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.