Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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 weaknesses of many make leader possible.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.