The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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.