Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

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.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.