You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

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.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.