It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

The comforter's head never aches.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.