The greatest prayer is patience.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

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 the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.