All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

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.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Our errors are steps on the way.

People say law but they mean wealth.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.