A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

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

Only the educated are free.