Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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 summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.