Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

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.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.