It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

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

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

The present is never a happy state to any being