True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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

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

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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 newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.