Luck never mad a mad man wise

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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.

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

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.