The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

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.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.