He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Genius is a long impatience.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.