The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.