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.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.