What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.