You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

God made time, but man made haste.

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.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

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

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.