Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

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.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.