Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

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.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.