Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Renown and repose do not go together.