Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Liberation is not deliverance.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.