Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

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

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.