When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

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.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.