Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

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.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.