If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history