Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you 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.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by