People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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.