There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.