Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

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.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination