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.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

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

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.