Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?