We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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.