If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

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.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Constant repetition carries conviction.