A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

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.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

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.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.