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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.