It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

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.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

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

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.