Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.