There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.