Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.