All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

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

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

To teach isto learn twice.

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 ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.