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.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.