Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

People loan their trust, they don't give it.