A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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 is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.