Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.