Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

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

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.