Patience is the art of hoping.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

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.

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.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.