Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.