Anempty sack cannot stand up.

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.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.