Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

God made time, but man made haste.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.