Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.