Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

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.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.