As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

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

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.