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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

The present is never a happy state to any being