There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.