Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

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.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.