A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.