If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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

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.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.