You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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.

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.