Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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.