Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

To understand everything is to forgive everything.