No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

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.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

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

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.