There is no knowledge that is not power.

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

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

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

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

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.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.