Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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 most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.