Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

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.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.