Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.