Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

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

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.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

The present is never a happy state to any being