Ability is poor men's wealth

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

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

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.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Liberation is not deliverance.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

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