In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

The comforter's head never aches.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.