Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.