A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.