Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

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 fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.