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

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

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.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.