No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

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.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.