It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.