Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

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

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

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

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.