It's good to shut up sometimes.

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 man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.