It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

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