Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

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.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.