Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.