Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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 World is but, a school of inquiry.

Those who trust us educate us.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.