As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

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.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.