A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

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.