Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

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

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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 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.