We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

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.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out