Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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.