Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Windowsof opportunity exist for only a brief moment in time, you have to have visionin order to spot them, and take advantage of them.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.