Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

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.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

You can't unscramble an egg.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.