Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

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.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.