There is no knowledge that is not power.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.