If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

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

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.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.