Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.