Liberation is not deliverance.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

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.

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.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.