Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Nevercut what you can untie.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Only the educated are free.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.