Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

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!

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.