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

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

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