The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.