You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

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.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.