Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Patience is the art of hoping.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.