First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

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.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.