All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

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.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.