The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

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.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

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

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.