The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.