A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

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.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.