Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.