If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.