Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

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.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Discord gives a relish to concord.