Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.