The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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.