Little things console us because little things afflict us.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

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.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.