The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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.

Every advantage has its tax

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.