You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.