Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.