Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

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