Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

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.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.