Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Skillin the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He canaccomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.