Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

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.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.