Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

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.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

A language is like living skin itself.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.