No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

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

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

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 Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.