The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

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.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.