In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

A language is like living skin itself.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

The present is never a happy state to any being

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.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Neversay more than is necessary.

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.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.