Necessity truns lion into fox.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Thereare two sides to every question.