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.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.