Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

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.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.