The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

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.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.