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

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

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.

The greatest prayer is patience.