Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

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.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.