Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

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.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.