Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

God made time, but man made haste.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.