Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

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.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.