A room without books is a body without soul

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

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.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing