True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.