When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.