It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

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.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.