Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

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.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.