Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

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.