Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A room without books is a body without soul

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.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.