You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

A language is like living skin itself.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.