When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

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 Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

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

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.