Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.