If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Discord gives a relish to concord.