The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

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'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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