Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

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.

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

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.