The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

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.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.