Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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 remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.