Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.