Malice drinketh its own poison.

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.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.