An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.