Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

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.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion