Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

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

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

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.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.