To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.