By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The property of power is to protect.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

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.