One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

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One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine sharp, open the window and politely ask the muse to enter and kiss me. Sometimes she comes in, more often she does not. But she can never claim that she hasn't found me waiting in the right place.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.