Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains