Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

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.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.