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 areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.