In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

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.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A language is like living skin itself.

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

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.