Our distrust is very expensive.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

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 isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.