Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

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.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.