The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

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

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much