Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

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

To beprepared is half the victory.