Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

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.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.