Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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

Ifyou are 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 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.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.