A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

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.