We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country