Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.