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.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.