Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

You can't unscramble an egg.

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.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.