Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Only the educated are free.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.