First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Example is better than following it.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.