Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.