Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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.

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!

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.