In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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.