To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

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

Patience is the art of hoping.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

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.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.