Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

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.

People say law but they mean wealth.