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

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.