Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

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

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.