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

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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.

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.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.