The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

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.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.