All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.