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.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.