Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

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.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.