Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

The property of power is to protect.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

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.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.