I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.