Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

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.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.