It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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?'

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.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.