Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

They know enough who know how to learn.