The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

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.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.