Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.