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!

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.