True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

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.