If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.