Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

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.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.