Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

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.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.