You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

The comforter's head never aches.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears