Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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

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.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.