As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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 may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.