Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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.