Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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.