Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

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.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Silenceis the mother of truth.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Stability is not immobility