The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.