Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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 cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.