Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.