All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer