Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

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

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Compromise.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.