Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

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.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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