No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

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.

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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.