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.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.