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.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.