Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.