If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

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.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Thereare two sides to every question.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.