A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

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

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.