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

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.