The great despisers are the greater reverers.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

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

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

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

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.