It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

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.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

If youare 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.