Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

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

Skillin the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He canaccomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

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.