Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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.