Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.