I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.