He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

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.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.