No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

A room without books is a body without soul

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.