One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Ability is poor men's wealth

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.