Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Faith is continuation of reason.

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.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.