Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.