Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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.