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

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

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