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

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 woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.