Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

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

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

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.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.