Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

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.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway