If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.