Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

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.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.