Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.