Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Stability is not immobility

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.