Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.