Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

An expert is a man, who dosent has all the answers, but he is sure that if that he is given enough money he can find them.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant