If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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

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.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.