It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

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.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.