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.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist