A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

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.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination