Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

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.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.