A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Example is better than following it.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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