I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.