Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

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.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

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?

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.