The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Ittakes time to save time.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

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.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.