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

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

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

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.