Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.