Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

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.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.