One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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.