Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Habit: the shackles of the free

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.