Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.