Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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 hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

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

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Well done is better than well said.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.