Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

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.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes