Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Example is better than following it.

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.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.