The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.