The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

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.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.