This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

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

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.