Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

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.