Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

A language is like living skin itself.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

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

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.