Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

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.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.