I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.