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.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.