In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

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.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.