Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.