you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

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.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.