It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

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.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

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

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.