Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

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.

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

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.