Adversity introduces a man to himself.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

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

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.