Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.