Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.