Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

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

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.