Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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.