Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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.