Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Renown and repose do not go together.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

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.

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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.