Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

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

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

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

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave