We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

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.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.