Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The first duty of love is to listen.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

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.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.