A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.