A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

A room without books is a body without soul

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

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.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.