We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

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

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

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.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.