Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

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.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty