Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.