All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

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.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Genius is a long impatience.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.