Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

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.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.