You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

The greatest prayer is patience.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.