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

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

"Man wishes2fly like a bird,sing like cuckoo,dance like a peacock,swim like a fish,But Man dosnt wish2live like a man"

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.