Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

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.

You can't unscramble an egg.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Ittakes time to save time.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.