Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

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.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.