Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.