A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

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.

If you can't love visible people, then how can u love invisible God. - Mother teresa

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Ittakes time to save time.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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.