The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

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 sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.