Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

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.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.