If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

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

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.