To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech