The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.