Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

What is well done is done soon enough.

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.

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.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

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.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.