Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Ability is poor men's wealth

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.