It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

A room without books is a body without soul

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.