He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.