People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

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.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall 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.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.