Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

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.