All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

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.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.