Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

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.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.