Evil alone has oil for every wheel

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

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.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.