Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.