When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Pain is the outcome of sin.