Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

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 bad workman never gets a good tool.

Our distrust is very expensive.