Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

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

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

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.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.