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.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.