It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

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

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.