Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

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 darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.