You can't unscramble an egg.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

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.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.