You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

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.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

As long as there is life there is danger.

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

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.