No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.