Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?