I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

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.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.