Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

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.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

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.