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.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

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.