Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

People say law but they mean wealth.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.