Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.