If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

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

The greatest prayer is patience.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare