Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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.

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

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.