The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

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

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.