Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.