The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.