Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.