Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Ability is poor men's wealth

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 happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

As long as there is life there is danger.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.