A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.