An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.