Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The greatest prayer is patience.

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.