A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

You can't unscramble an egg.

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.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.