The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.