Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond 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.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

God made time, but man made haste.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.