The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

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 real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.