When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

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.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.