Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

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.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Stability is not immobility

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.