Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

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.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.