Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.