If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

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.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

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

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.