A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

As a final incentive before giving up a

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

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.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.