you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.