Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

The greatest prayer is patience.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him