People loan their trust, they don't give it.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

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.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.