Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

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.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.