Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

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.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.