The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.