He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

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.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .