Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Power comes from sincere service

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

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

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.