Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.