Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

As a final incentive before giving up a

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.