Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

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.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Ittakes time to save time.