A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.