We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

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.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.