Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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.