Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.