We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

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.