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.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Only the educated are free.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.