A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

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

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.