Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You can't unscramble an egg.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.