An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

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.

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

It's good to shut up sometimes.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.