In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.