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

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

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.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.