The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

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.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.