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.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

A language is like living skin itself.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

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

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.