It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.