All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.