A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

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.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.