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.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.