A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

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.

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

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.