Pleasant words are the food of love.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

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.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.