Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

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.

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

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty