A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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.