A Leader is a dealer in hope.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

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.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

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

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.