Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

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.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

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

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.