Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

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.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.