Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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.

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.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.