Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

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.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

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

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.