Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.