Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

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

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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