Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

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.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.