Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Patience is the art of hoping.

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.

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

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

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

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.