Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Ittakes time to save time.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.