One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

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.