My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

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 most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.