One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

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.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.