The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

God made time, but man made haste.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to