Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

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

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

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.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.