All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

The first duty of love is to listen.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

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.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.