The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

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.