Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.