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

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.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.