The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

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.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.