I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

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.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The comforter's head never aches.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.