Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

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.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

To teach isto learn twice.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.