The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

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.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.