A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.