Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

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

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.