A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

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.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Nogarden is without its weeds.