All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

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.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A good conscience is the best divinity.