Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

What is well done is done soon enough.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.