It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.