Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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 smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

All thingsat first appear difficult.