The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

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

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.