Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

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.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!