Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

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

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.