I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

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.