The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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 astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Those who trust us educate us.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.