Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

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.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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