No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.