Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.