Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

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.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.