The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

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.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.