The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

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.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Only the educated are free.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.