A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Patience is the art of hoping.

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.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him