Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

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.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.