If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.