Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.