If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.