Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

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.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Men are cruel, but man is kind.