The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

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