Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.