Self-trust is the first secret of success.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

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.