Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.