Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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

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.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

What is well done is done soon enough.