One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Genius is a long impatience.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

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.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom