Hold a true friend with both your hands.

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

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.