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

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

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.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.