Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

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

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.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.