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

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.