Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

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.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.