Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!