A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.