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.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.