When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Nevercut what you can untie.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

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.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.