In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

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.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Only the educated are free.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.