Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

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.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.