Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

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 mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.