No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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