A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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 is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.