Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

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.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war