The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

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.