At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

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.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.