The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

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.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.