We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

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

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.