A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

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.

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

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.