Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

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

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.