Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

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.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.